Artist Commissions

2024

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte

T’aabal chukChuuk / Embers

A new commission of fifty-six 3D printed lilies animated through an augmented reality experience

2023

C. Rose Smith

Belmont Mansion

Staging scenes of visibility and authority to reflect on the black body as a former commodity

2023

Conor Devlin-Powell

What I'm Hiding From You

A new short film using the horror genre to satirise representations of neurodivergence

2023

Amartey Golding

Britannia

A new film, meditating on the artist's English ancestry inspired by the symbolic figure of Britannia

2023

Ajamu

Umbrella

A new portrait responding to the legacy of black queer photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode

2022

Sim Chi Yin

“The suitcase is a little bit rotten”

Speculating on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance

2022

Laura El-Tantawy

She Fights in the Fields

Examining the effects of Brexit and Covid-19 on the UK's farming communities

2022

Reena Saini Kallat

Pattern Recognition

Addressing international travel authorisations and the ever-shifting politics of access

2021-22

Sasha Huber

Khadija Saye – You Are Missed

Commemorating Khadija Saye, the artist, activist and carer who tragically died in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in West London

2020 - 2021

Jeannette Ehlers

We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (From Sunset to Sunrise)

A poetic series examining hair as an important marker of Pan-African identity and connectedness

2021

Sasha Huber

The Firsts – Tilo Frey

Honouring Cameroonian-Swiss politician Tilo Frey, who campaigned for women’s rights and suffrage in Switzerland

2021

Mónica de Miranda

The Island

Contemplating the complex experiences of Afrodiasporic lives, relationships to the land and colonial pasts

2020

Karl Ohiri

Equation for Humanity

A conceptual enquiry into how we care for one another as a society

2020

Sonal Kantaria

Ghar

Still and moving imagery that explores the notions of ‘home’ and belonging

2020

Joy Gregory

Madam Photo

A visual diary exploring creative acts of self-care and daily lockdown rituals

2020

Ope Lori

The Lines Between Us / I, Becoming You

A performative exploration centred on a shared lineage of philosophy between father and daughter

2020

Silvia Rosi

Neither Could Exist Alone

A visual investigation of personal structures in flux and the absence of touch

2020

Poulomi Desai

Our cultures are the portals - the gateways between one world and the next

2020

Dexter McLean

Untitled

A series of portraits looking at the value of close relationships and support bubbles during Covid-19

2020

Mohini Chandra

Belated

A visual mediation on ideas of place and belonging during the global pandemic

2020

Aida Silvestri

Contagion: Colour on the Front Line

Experimental portraits exploring the pandemic’s impact on front line workers of colour

2020

Othello De’Souza-Hartley

Blind, but I can See

A reflection of loss, stillness and how to navigate grief

2019

Lina Iris Viktor

Dark Testament

An imaginary riposte to imperial narratives of empire and expansion

2021

Mónica de Miranda

The Island (film)

A film work exploring the relationships between our bodies, the past and the lands we inhabit through a black ecofeminist lens

2021-22

Sasha Huber

Tailoring Freedom

Commemorating seven enslaved individuals, adopting art as a means to heal colonial traumas

2008

Armet Francis

Windrush

Giving names to the faces of those who journeyed on the historic Windrush voyage

1994

Armet Francis

Lambeth and Brixton Tube

Capturing the diverse community around the London borough of Lambeth

2018

Omar Victor Diop

Windrush Day

Reinterpreting a key moment in Britain’s cultural history of migration

2018

Franklyn Rodgers

Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE

Commemorating devotion to seeking political and social justice

2017

Ingrid Pollard

The Valentine Days

Hand-tinted modern prints made from 19th century postcards of Jamaica

2008

Sunil Gupta

The New Pre-Raphaelites

Portraying individuals and families affected by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised homosexuality

2016 / 2017

Zanele Muholi

Commemorating the struggle for equality, freedom of movement and women’s rights in South Africa and beyond

1989-90

Joy Gregory

Autoportrait

Autograph's first commission, using self-portraiture to investigate concepts of beauty, femininity and identity